Chapter
3
Business Education – Ethics and New Professionals
Internet Resources 1
Materials with Exploitable Content
The following web sites address several companies’ commitment to ethical business practices. Annotations describe the focus of each site’s documents:http://www.bbb.org
The Better Business Bureau
A private, non-profit organization for consumers in the United States, the Better Business Bureau offers information for consumers and readers on these issues and others: lists of companies that do not have permission to use the Better Business Bureau trademark and why; reports on possible illegitimacy of a poll on gun control; and Y2K scams.http://www.wbs.warwick.ac.uk/ccu
Warwick University -- Corporate Citizenship Unit
Warwick University offers extensive resources and ideas and useful links to companies and schools worldwide. An international focus on business ethics, this site will help teachers and students learn about business ethics.http://www.depaul.edu/ethics/contents.html
Depaul University -- Institute for Business and Professional Ethics
DePaul University offers a wide range of materials and resources for the business ethics educator. You can learn about how ethics is taught in a business school in the United States. The links to resources in business ethics are especially useful.http://www.srbnet.org
Net Impact
This community of business students and alumni addresses issues of both financial and social responsibility for stakeholders. Use this site to communicate with others interested in business ethics.http://www.gsb.stthom.edu/cbes
St. Thomas University, Center for Business Ethics
St. Thomas University in Houston, Texas maintains a web site to offer support to business in developing programs for making ethical choices and right decisions in the workplace. The university offers "significant resources to emphasizing ethics education" in this Graduate School of Business. You will find course syllabi, curricular objectives and strategies, dialogues with stakeholders and many other interesting opportunities for learning about and participating in an electronic dialog on business ethics education.http://www.pg.com/animalalternatives
Procter and Gamble
Read what Procter and Gamble is doing to avoid product testing on live animals.http://www.walmartfoundation.org/
The Wal-Mart Foundation
This foundation supports community development. See how Wal-Mart uses its philanthropic activities as a way of marketing its reputation. Students might consider using this document as a model for drafting a similar document for a company familiar to them.http://www.jobweb.org/principl.htm
The National Association of Colleges and Employers has provided a list of ethical principles to follow in educating students and others about career opportunities. Use these as a starting point for Appendix B or other classroom and community-based activities.http://cba.loyno.edu
Loyola University of New Orleans -- College of Business Administration
This university offers comprehensive information on its College of Business Administration's approach to ethical education in business. Emphasizing the value of learning how to be both an effective and socially responsible business professional, Loyola has been a national leader in setting high standards in ethics education in business. Visit this web site to learn about courses, projects and programs for students at Loyola. You can even view the student syllabus and example projects of students’ work.http://www.ethicscentre.com
The Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy
This independent entity, which works with businesses and with other organizations involved in business ethics, seeks to build programs and address current issues in the field of business ethics. Use this site to find a Canadian national perspective on the issue of business ethics education.http://www.business-ethics.org
International Business Ethics Institute
Offered in English, Portuguese and French, this web site offers information on an organization whose mission is described: "Fostering global business practices that promote equitable economic development, resource sustainability and just forms of government." Visit this site for education resources and lists of publications of interest to the business ethics student.http://roger.babson.edu/ethics/index2.htm
Babson College -- Business Ethics Program
This site provides sample course syllabi, case studies, and other information on business ethics.http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/start/bus.html
University of British Columbia -- Centre for Applied Ethics
Called "Starting Points," this web site offers a list of books and other print and video material for use in learning about business ethics.http://www.depaul.edu/ethics/bizethics.html
Business Ethics Magazine
Back issues and selected articles from Business Ethics Magazine can be found on this site.http://www.singerpubs.com/ethikos
Ethikos
A bi-monthly publication examining ethical and compliance issues in business using case studies about corporate ethics and compliance (from Rutgers University, United States). View the sample articles.
http://www.desmoines.bbb.org/video/index.html
Better Business Bureau -- Des Moines, Iowa Office
A description of a video entitled "Within Reason" for use in building awareness about the importance of ethical behavior in the workplace.http://www.effective-ethics.com
Directions
This organization and its web site seek to provide "teaching, direction, comfort, strength, healing, and support" for business professionals.http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~aking
Summary of professional work on difficult issues in multinational corporate expansion or management by Dr. Andrew King, New York University.
Official DocumentsSearch corporate web sites to find useful documents to show how these companies educate employees and customers about their ethical commitments.
http://www.ibm.com/legal
IBM (International Business Machines Corporation)
At this web site, you will find information on IBM’s legal documents. Use them in your classroom!http://www.nikebiz.com/environ/
Nike, Inc.
This athletic footwear and sportswear manufacturer commits to an environmental policy with its Mission Statement.
1 Thanks to Kathleen Lopez, Marymount University student assistant, for her help in locating web sites for this chapter.